Can somebody please explain Yanni to me? It's pledge week on PBS and they usually show their best stuff like the Rolling Stones concert at 10 PM tonight, but right now they're showing a Yanni concert and I'm not getting it. Yanni himself seems quite pleased with it, though.
They always show past-their-prime boomer group shows during beg-a-thon week. Then they make a big deal about how ONLY PBS shows this stuff and how it would go away yada yada yada if it weren't for PBS, etc. Then as soon as beg-a-thon week is over they don't show any of those shows again until the next beg-a-thon week.
I don't know about Yanni, though.
Yanni? WTF?
> Can somebody please explain Yanni to me? It's pledge week on PBS and they usually show their best stuff like the Rolling Stones concert at 10 PM tonight, but right now they're showing a Yanni concert and I'm not getting it.
Okay, I'm thinking this is a California thang. In Texas, I'd expect something really cool, and I don't mean Riverdance or any other kitsch like the Lawrence Welk or Yanni.
Yanni? WTF?
Like SRV....now that was a texas thang. Blues played only as SVR could....Yanni.hmmmmm?...
Lawrence Welk....:)...and all the bubbles.....not
Yanni? WTF?
Dave - I understand why they show over-the-hill groups like the Stones. Do you know anybody under 50 that watches PBS? What I'm wondering is what demographic Yanni appeals to. You're a classical music aficionado; I can't see you digging on Yanni when you can listen to a symphony by one of your favorite composers. I don't want to offend any Yanni fans, but to me his compositions sound like something a first year college music student might write. Not terrible but not something you'd want to pay money for.
Kent - Yes, being the cool Austin resident that you are, I'm surprised you've even heard of Riverdance. My wife has forbidden me to watch Lawrence Welk because I have been known to sing the songs later after watching the show. The Sacramento TV and radio stations have never been known for their hipness, well ever since KZAP went down 20 or so years ago.
Maybe some california dreaming?
Might be a little better?;-)
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Yanni? WTF?
What baffles me is NPR doing stories on Hip-Hop? What the heck, do they really have that demographic?
Jimi
They play Hendrix, sometimes, in Seattle....
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SRV-slight return----
Who's Better? You decide....
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Jimi
Hendrix sometimes in Seattle?...yeah...that's right Doug...I spent damn near a whole day at the music place next to the Space Needle watching Hendrix
its not Yanni.. it's Yawnee
it was the Stones the other night
getting pitched for dollars by PBS on my tv.
This is pretty freaky, especially the vocal track.
http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/deconstructing_gimme_shelter_listen/
> Can somebody please explain Yanni to me? It's pledge week on PBS and they usually show their best stuff like the Rolling Stones concert at 10 PM tonight, but right now they're showing a Yanni concert and I'm not getting it. Yanni himself seems quite pleased with it, though.
As well he should be. Yanni is nothing more than the push back by boomers who during the 80s were disinfranchised by the 'hair bands'. Solution, keep the hair, just tone it down a bit. He's the godfather of new age music. But he didn't appoint himself. Takes a village to raise mediocre classical music artists. Sucky as THAT is.
(no offence to you classical music lovers!:-))
Yanni is quite popular and some of his music is quite good. You hear him all the time on NPR weekend shows such as "Earth Tones" and the old "Hearts of Space" show. Geez, what a bunch of musical elitists we have here on BL. 🙁
Safe journey space fans, where ever you are.
Stephen Hill
Jimi
The name of this song is often misquoted. It's "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)", as opposed to "Voodoo Child". On the same album (Electric Ladyland) that it's from, is another, slower and longer song called "Voodoo Chile".
SRV-slight return----
SRV at the El Mocambo (the elmo) . . doesn't get much better. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
phd
Yanni-one man's dream
I like this yanni tune:
can't be any worse than that Benise (Ben-ee-say) pretending to play the classical guitar (to recorded music) prancing around on the stage with fans blowing his hair around.
The wilder the schtick, the better.
Hair blowing in the wind, replace the spanish guitar with an electric cello, and add a wild get-up to include a gold-plated breastplate...
